Season 9

[MikeN]

In the season opener: announcement of 10 foot cans! 40% more material dug per hole.

Drilling in the money pit area, they found a finger sized "unexpected fairly substantial chunk of wood" in a core sample. Craig Tester declared it to be the area of the Chappell vault.

This year the Communities, Culture, and Heritage (CCH) has asserted control over the eastern side of the island. This now requires archeological grade operations in all areas of the swamp, Smith Cove, etc. My take is that there is now no chance of extracting the "Spanish Galleon" / "Viking ship" from the bottom of the swamp this year. I have 2 thoughts: it is admirable to learn about everything in the area rather than just digging an island-size hole hundreds of feet deep. On the other hand, if the Laginas hadn't opened the project and they hadn't financed it along with the History Channel, the island would mostly just sit there undiscovered and unresearched for hundreds of years. They were able to open things on a scale no university archeology team could have done: draining Smith Cove and the swamp to open up for further study.

Interestingly, CCH considers the Money Pit area as previously disturbed, so the team still has free reign to dig there unsupervised this year!

 

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[RTR]

Seems to me the CCH is afraid the search on Oak Island is getting Too close to finding the real truth .
...Watch the final couple minutes of last night show( where they talk about future episodes)...

 

[franklin]

The CCH will never let the real truth be told. It is the same all over the World. The truth is all of our cultural history of the World is WRONG. They know it but they do not want us to know. If and when treasure or something is ever found to verify that the World's History is wrong it will never be told in that Light. Believe me I know. They sweep it under the protection and custody of Church and State.

 

[RTR]

Hey,and whats with the traces of Gold & Silver found in the water by C-1 ?
I thought there was NO gold or silver . Thought It was ALL just a made up hoax LOL

 

[MikeN]

Hey,and whats with the traces of Gold & Silver found in the water by C-1 ?
I thought there was NO gold or silver . Thought It was ALL just a made up hoax LOL

I don't have the background to compare the levels to groundwater in other locations. I'll have to see data from additional water and till samples. If there were to be a rich natural vein of gold, there's no way for them to mine it; CCH would immediately take control. It's likely that if a gold chalice comes up in a hammer grab that they would stop and excavate a larger dig in an archeologically friendly way.

Here's a preview of Billy Gerhardt's truck full of silver being hoisted up from the bottom of the money pit.

 

[RTR]

I don't have the background to compare the levels to groundwater in other locations. I'll have to see data from additional water and till samples. If there were to be a rich natural vein of gold, there's no way for them to mine it; CCH would immediately take control. It's likely that if a gold chalice comes up in a hammer grab that they would stop and excavate a larger dig in an archeologically friendly way.

Here's a preview of Billy Gerhardt's truck full of silver being hoisted up from the bottom of the money pit.

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Yeah, Well, IF you watched last nights show they CLEARLY posted a chart showing the gold/silver content in the water around C-1 and in comparison with surrounding waters(salt & fresh)

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Explain this >> https://www.monstersandcritics.com/...of-oak-island-could-end-up-rewriting-history/

A bunch of clods pawing around on an island made a shallow surface find of a lead cross. But because they destroyed any surrounding strata and used no precise or careful measurements before disturbing the site it has ZERO providence and will not change any history. Even if it is ancient it doesn't rewrite anything. Norse (by then Christians) were around that area in 1,000 AD, and Basque fishermen also in that area in the 14th century. And there were people in Canada since the ice shelf receded. The figure is hardly a unique shape.

All we know from that cross is that it was on Oak Island in the 21st century. No evidence of any treasure or who may have left it there or why.

 

[freeman]

Anyone not some 'They said it on TV' window licker knows that the place is one huge rubbish dump. The shafts were filled up with spoil and whatever rubbish could be easily chucked or bulldozed into them.

That's not counting the accidents eg: when a whole boiler burst and fell in. Or the bodies that weren't recovered either.

There will be traces of metals, chemicals, hydrocarbons and everything else from the swill that will leach into the water.

Watch as the 'whole truckload of silver' that they promised is there drives off to somewhere else underground.

 

[NostraDanis]

I don't know if there's any "treasure" on Oak Island. Neither do you.

I do know that the lengths the denyers go to justify and negate anything that has ever been found or claimed is really amazing.

It is a shame that no discussions can be had on the subject on this forum because they are shouted down by the denyers echo-chamber and made pointless. Oh well, have at it ...

 

[camichael]

Did anyone notice that the amount of silver found was LESS that what is commonly found in seawater.....

 

[MikeN]

Did anyone notice that the amount of silver found was LESS that what is commonly found in seawater.....

It confirms that the original "Truckload of silver" metals detected last year were from another type of origin. So there will only be gold chalices at the bottom of C1. Someone will need to doctor the photo of Billy's truck above to be carrying gold instead of silver!

Since they already found a cavern at the bottom of C1 and even had a diver down there - does that mean that all the holes drilled around C1 to sample the water entered the same cavern?

 

[gazzahk]

Since they already found a cavern at the bottom of C1 and even had a diver down there - does that mean that all the holes drilled around C1 to sample the water entered the same cavern?

I would imagine they are all connected. The sea water has to get into them all. The whole area down there must be catacombed with cavities, tunnels, etc

When Dunfeild carried out test on the water in those cavities he found it was coming from a fair way away from Oak Island so I Imagine the entrance to the whole underground system is farther of the coast and connected by a natural cave system as is common with the type of sub structure under Oak Island and the surrounding area.

 

[gazzahk]

I don't know if there's any "treasure" on Oak Island. Neither do you.

I do know that the lengths the denyers go to justify and negate anything that has ever been found or claimed is really amazing.

It is a shame that no discussions can be had on the subject on this forum because they are shouted down by the denyers echo-chamber and made pointless. Oh well, have at it ...

Huh... There has been amazing amounts of discussion of everything ever been claimed to be found. What are you saying that people should just accept unsupported assertion and not question it?

Because some people desire to believe the treasure story they will go on believing the story even though ZERO evidence has ever been found of treasure.

I personally fail to see how anyone could still believe that a treasure lays buried in the money pit area. Everything has been drilled. No evidence of any treasure has ever been found.

So yes I do know there is no treasure in the money pit area because the whole area has been dug and no evidence of treasure found...

 

[gazzahk]

Maybe the treasure was moved to here

Treasure hunters continue their search for the world's largest hoard

Treasure hunters in Finland believe they are getting closer to uncovering the world's largest hoard.

www.9news.com.au

Good luck to those searchers...

 

[MikeN]

I would imagine they are all connected. The sea water has to get into them all. The whole area down there must be catacombed with cavities, tunnels, etc

When Dunfeild carried out test on the water in those cavities he found it was coming from a fair way away from Oak Island so I Imagine the entrance to the whole underground system is farther of the coast and connected by a natural cave system as is common with the type of sub structure under Oak Island and the surrounding area.

But recent tests have not shown much seawater - perhaps all the activity has finally shut off sea access. And as Dr. Ian Spooner noted this week when he appeared to taste-test a water sample "Mineral rich but fresh, a fair bit of iron.".

 

[n2mini]

I personally fail to see how anyone could still believe that a treasure lays buried in the money pit area. Everything has been drilled. No evidence of any treasure has ever been found.

No evidence other then the cross the family decendents claims was found there, and who is to say it hasn't already been found either by the original 3 or S Ball, or someone else along the way and they just didn't go hooten and hollering about it to not have to share or pay taxes on it... I personally believe S Ball had a much bigger play in all this then we'll ever know..Sure he did some cabbage faming and probably some cattleing, but he was pretty well off for the times back then.. He owned a good amount of land on the island and also bought another island from one of the original 3 who was also his executor of his estate. I think that was to keep it hush hush about his true wealth. I of course have no way to prove any of that, just my thinking..

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I don't know if there's any "treasure" on Oak Island. Neither do you.

I suppose that is true. But by using the Scientific Method and examining the evidence provided in the 28 attempts over 200+ years (current attempt has dragged out over 8 years) that have failed to produce treasure we can state that there seems to be more evidence that no treasure exists on Oak Island than for any given similar sized area in North America

 

[gazzahk]

No evidence other then the cross the family decendents claims was found there, and who is to say it hasn't already been found either by the original 3 or S Ball, or someone else along the way and they just didn't go hooten and hollering about it to not have to share or pay taxes on it... I personally believe S Ball had a much bigger play in all this then we'll ever know..Sure he did some cabbage faming and probably some cattleing, but he was pretty well off for the times back then.. He owned a good amount of land on the island and also bought another island from one of the original 3 who was also his executor of his estate. I think that was to keep it hush hush about his true wealth. I of course have no way to prove any of that, just my thinking..

If the original finders found treasure then the treasure is gone so it is not still on OI. The same is true if S.Ball found any treasure.

Therefore as I said

So yes I do know there is no treasure in the money pit area because the whole area has been dug and no evidence of treasure found...

 

[gazzahk]

But recent tests have not shown much seawater - perhaps all the activity has finally shut off sea access. And as Dr. Ian Spooner noted this week when he appeared to taste-test a water sample "Mineral rich but fresh, a fair bit of iron.".

Yep.. Certainly possible that all the holes and back fill etc have blocked of the access to the ocean in the part of the hole they are testing. If so they now should be able to pump the hole dry...

 

[n2mini]

If the original finders found treasure then the treasure is gone so it is not still on OI. The same is true if S.Ball found any treasure.

Therefore as I said

So yes I do know there is no treasure in the money pit area because the whole area has been dug and no evidence of treasure found...

but if the original 3 did find that cross the family has that is the evidence correct?